University of Pennsylvania, Oversize Ms. Codex 143

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DS ID:

DS1357

Shelfmark:

Oversize Ms. Codex 143

Title:

Linea de los Reyes de Aragon /

Author:

Vagad, Gauberte Fabricio de

Gualberto Fabricio de Vagad WIKIDATA

Poems

Place:

Spain

Spain TGN

Date:

[1550?]

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Spanish

Spanish WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 7 leaves : paper ; 298 x 206 (260 x 155) mm bound to 300 x 210 mm

Note:

Binding: Modern cloth. Stains. One small wormhole. Some splitting and cracking of the edges of the leaves. Modern repairs to margins. Lower margins uncut.
Origin: Written in Spain in the mid-16th century (Zacour-Hirsch).
Ms. codex.
Title and attribution from caption title (f. 1r).
Incipit: Quando fuel cruel castigo / Julian conde malbado / ...
Foliation: Paper, i + 7 + i; [1-7]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.
Layout: Written in 2 columns of 40 lines; ruled in drypoint.
Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand. The second line of the heading (f. 1r), which identifies Fray Ganberto [sic] as Vagad and dates the work to ca. 1490, is written in a different, perhaps slightly later hand. There are corrections in a contemporary hand.
Watermarks: Armillary sphere, almost identical with Briquet 14008. It is related to the group Briquet 13999-14008, all from southern France or the Pyrenees, and dated about 1550.
Sold by Laurence Witten (New Haven, Conn.), 1958.

Keyword:

Poems

codices (bound manuscripts)

Poetry

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Manuscripts, Spanish

History

Spain

Spain--Aragon

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9915517673503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3bh1n/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania